Search Results: Signed from Nooks Of Books

Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1992. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Gold boards quarterbound in green cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Square octavo. xvi + 220pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the head of the spine; the original price (19.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author with 'Best Wishes' (to no one in particular) on the ffep. The author is a member of the LPGA Hall of Fame, having won 38 LPGA victories, including a U. S. Open Championship.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "When it comes to the 19th hole, everyone has a favorite story. Here the friends and associates of Carol Mann contribute their tales of successes and woes, seeking the humor or finding the inspiration in their golf experiences. All stories are original in this… Read More

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Gray paper over boards with a black, gilt-stamped backstrip. Octavo. 182pps. There is mild rubbing to the spine-ends and a remainder mark at the base of the textblock (unobtrusive, under the heel of the spine). Also, there is slight creasing at the bottom of the first 20 pages. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has touches of rubbing and a few slight scratchings; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title page. A nice copy of Benioff's highly regarded first novel. Made into a film by Spike Lee (2002), starring Edward Norton. ".An absorbing novel of crime, its terrifying consequences, and a bond that redefines the friendship of three restless young men. Wall Street speculators, the Manhattan downtown club scene, Russian gangsters, immigrant neighborhoods --… Read More

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Bridge Publications, Incorporated, 1998. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Beiged marbled boards quarterbound in tan cloth. The spine is stamped in beige. Untrimmed fore-edge. 370pps. First Printing. There is mild bumping to the lower tips and the spine-heel. Also, a previous owner's nameplate is on the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price (25.00) is intact on the front flap. SIGNED on the title-page by the author, Kevin Anderson.<br><br>Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. X03-E.. SIGNED by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1986. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Golden boards quarterbound in ivory cloth. The spine is stamped in copper. 317pp. Fore-edge untrimmed. There is mild bumping to the upper tips, rounding them slightly. Otherwise, flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. Inscribed by the author to an aspiring writer on the half-title page. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a shallow crease in the back panel and another in the rear flap. No chips, soiling or tears; the original price (15.95) is yet intact. An excellent, highly-presentable copy.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. Photos can be emailed upon request.. SIGNED by the Author on the Half-Title Page. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.

New York: Harcourt, 1999. [1999]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Mustard-yellow boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. Yellow endpapers. 238pps. First Printing. There is a mild bump to the head of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the Nobel Laureate -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy with an elusive signature.<br><br><b><font color= #003366> "Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily preoccupations. In the evenings, and on weekends, he works on bringing up to date his… Read More

New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Very Good in the publisher's brown paper-covered boards half-bound in ivory vellum. Burgundy leather spine-label, gilt-stamped. Top-edge gilt. 266pps. Neither the rare dustjacket nor the slipcase are present. There is modest sunning and wear in the area of the spine. The boards have light touches of soiling. Internally, there is some browning to the endpapers and a previous owner's unassuming namestamp is near the top of the ffep and, again, on the rear pastedown; there is a spot of browning, also, on pgs 178-179 from where a newspaper clipping had been laid in. The binding is slightly brittle, though sound, with all pages intact. Other than the aforementioned minor flaw to page 178, the text is in excellent, clean condition. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Huxley on a limitation page. ".Some people travel on business, some in search of health. But it is neither the sickly, nor the men of affairs who fill the Grand Hotels and the pockets of their proprietors.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner's, 1996. [1996]. Uncorrected Proof. In Near Fine condition. Bound in glossy, pictorial wraps, trade-sized (pb). 358pps. There is a slight bump to the lower rear tip, otherwise as new: clean, tight, and bright. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. An excellent, pre-publication, collector's-quality copy of this highly-regarded memoir: winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. ".'Angela's Ashes' is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums -- too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage… Read More

New York: Random House, 1955. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Full brick-red cloth. The spine is stamped in black and gilt. Black topstain. Octavo. 249pps. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends. Also, the endpapers are somewhat yellowed due to the acid content of the stock/jacket flaps. Otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a faintly-sunned spine and shallow chipping at the extremities; overall, the jacket is quite presentable. The original price (3.00) is intact on the front flap. The author's second book, SIGNED by him -- without further inscription -- on the half-title page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy. ".When Mike Morrison arrived in Greece in 1941, the German invaders were already on the verge of driving the British Empire troops into the sea. Still, Mike figured on settling his affairs quickly, without undue trouble.… Read More

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. As New in an As New dustjacket. Black boards. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in silver. Textured endpapers. 311pps. A flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A splendid collector's copy. ".Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown… Read More

U.S.A.: Candlewick, 2011. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Bound in pictorial hardboards. Decorative purple endpapers. 235pps., plus an author's note. First Printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. Absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally Fine. SIGNED by Mr. Phelan, along with a doodle of Thomas Stevens (one the true-life characters in the book) to the original owners.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "As the nineteenth century wound down, a public inspired by Jules Verne's novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days' clamored for intrepid adventure. The challenge of circumnavigating the globe as no one ever had before attracted the fearless in droves. Three hardy spirits stayed the course. In 1884, former miner Thomas Stevens made the journey on a bicycle...the kind with a big front wheel. In 1889, pioneer reporter… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2002. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Navy blue boards. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. 334pps., plus an Author's Note. There is a small remainder mark on the bottom of the textblock and mild rubbing to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is indistinctly rubbed at the tips, otherwise as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. Laid in are promotional items: an 'Artemis' postcard, a 'Kydd' postcard, and a flyer for the Thomas Kydd Shipmates' Network. Book 2 of a planned 11-volume series by the highly-acclaimed author of naval adventure.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "With 'Kydd,' Julian Stockwin introduced us to a young wig-maker from Guildford who was kidnapped and pressed into duty with the tempestuous crew of the Duke William… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1995. [1995]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. Sage-green endpapers. 233pps. First Printing. The pages are lightly tanned due to the acid content of the stock, otherwise clean and tight with a square binding. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is very mildly rubbed; the original U.K. price (15.99) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy.<br><br><b><font color+#003366> "He is a man with a hidden, complicated past -- some of it perhaps unspeakably violent, much of it spent in thrall to an almost slavish fascination with seventeenth-century Flemish art. Now he is lured, unknowing, into a scheme to authenticate a set of suspect paintings, and -- as if in payment for his work, as if from out of the paintings… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 2001. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Brown boards with a black, silver-stamped backstrip. Octavo. Fore-edge untrimmed. 298pps. Stated First Edition. First Printing. There is mild bumping to the heel of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparenty reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED and dated by the author (in the year of publication), without further inscription, on the half-title page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy of the late author's highly-regarded novel. "Over thirty years, in the course of conversations that take place across Europe, a man named Jacques Austerlitz tells a nameless companion of his ongoing struggle with the riddle of his identity. A small child when he immigrates alone to England in the summer of 1939, Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. [1988]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Light brown boards quarterbound in beige cloth. The spine is stamped in brown. Octavo. 232pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price (16.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. This is a Review Copy, and all review materials (placard, black-and-white photo, and review slip) are laid in. The author's first novel. ".Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. [1988]. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Light brown boards quarterbound in beige cloth. The spine is stamped in brown. Octavo. 232pps. There is mild bumping to the tips and touches of dustspotting to the fore-edge (only). Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed; the original price (16.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A nice, collector's-quality copy of the author's first novel.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "...Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named… Read More

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. As New in an As New dustjacket. Tan and orange boards. The spine is stamped in metallic copper. Octavo. 197pps. + unpaginated. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey -- named Beatrice and Virgil -- and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions… Read More

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1996. In Near Fine condition. Bound in full burgundy leather, lushly gilt-stamped on all sides. Raised bands on the spine. All page-edges gilt. Octavo. Marbled endpapers and a sewn-in red ribbon bookmark. 234pps. No dustjacket, as issued. The head of the spine is very mildly rubbed and there is a slight crease at the top edge of the first three preliminary pages. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author exclusively for members of the Signed First Edition Society on a limitation page. Includes a color frontispiece by Nick Gaetano specially commissioned by The Franklin Library. Also, an Introduction by Spillane that is not included in the trade edition. "...Yes, Mike Hammer is back, and in deeper trouble and darker danger than ever before. He has the gunning down of an old army buddy to pay back with interest. He has two generations of the most powerful family in the Mafia to… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1994. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. 255pps. There is mild bumping to the board bottoms, otherwise Fine clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "The place is Los Angeles. The year is 1961, the dawn of a hopeful era for America's black citizens. Easy Rawlins's quiet real-estate empire is deep in the hole, so he must accept $200 from the oily white private eye Saul Lynx to track down one Elizabeth Eady, aka 'Black Betty.' Easy's murder-strewn search takes him into the depths of America's racial dilemmas and the mysteries of human character -- and his creator… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Uncorrected Proofs. Fine in glossy pictorial wraps, trade-sized (pb). 294pps. There is very slight exterior rubbing. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collector's-quality, advance copy of the third Robicheaux novel. ".Sweeps up from the lush, misty bayou country of southern Louisiana to the rugged landscape of Montana, where Robicheaux confronts Indians, oil company roughnecks, Mafia honchos, and a woman he could grow to love. James Lee Burke delivers a remarkable novel that shows him to be one of our most soulful, self-assured, and satisfying writers." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Violet boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic violet. Octavo. Violet endpapers. 325pps. First printing. There is a crease in the cloth of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immacualte; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. A very nice copy of this noir classic. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. ".On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy… Read More